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Do you feel busier than ever, yet suddenly unable to handle the stress, workouts, and endless to-do lists like you used to? Welcome to life and fitness after 40.

In this episode, Erin sits down with Stephanie Crassweller, founder of Vitality OET and Hormone + Menopause Functional Health Coach, to unpack why the strategies that used to keep high-achieving women afloat—pushing harder, cutting more, sleeping less—stop working once hormones start to shift.

Stephanie walks through your capacity bucket: why your stress tolerance quietly shrinks in perimenopause even when nothing else in your life has changed, why progesterone (not estrogen) is usually the first hormone to drop, and how years on birth control can leave your body without ever producing it naturally.

They also cover why HRT won't fix weight gain on its own, how one bad night of sleep can spike insulin resistance by 25%, and the nervous system resets Stephanie actually uses to stay out of fight-or-flight.

Resources from this episode can be found at: https://www.fuelwitherin.com/podcast/v/episode-30-how-women-over-40-can-lose-fat-when-nothing-you-used-to-do-works-anymore

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Website | ⁠www.vitalityoet.com⁠

Podcast | ⁠www.youtube.com/@metabolismandmenopausepodcast⁠

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